SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Multinational Corporation, Thomas Edison, Vietnamese Boat People
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The globe is becoming like the traditional village - mclaughan. Homogenization (will we have a global culture that eradicates regional and national differences) Long before trades, you can contact china through silk road boats to travel rivers, streams, lakes when europeans came to na, they discovered that the best way to get around na is canoes . 14 hours to fly the atlantic were the largest at the time to carry passengers. Inca as well as the greeks use runners to carry messages in the old days. Still inter-continental communication is restricted by a lack of transmission power you cant transmit information that far so cables that are carried by ships and sunk in the atlantic to help transmit these information. Nicola tesla key figure in the development of radiowaves he is a serbian and he emigrated to america in 1884 and he worked with.
